Collar and can assembling machine



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y.1. F. PETERS COLLAR AND CAN SSEMBLING MACHINE Original Filed Oct. 4, 192:5 5 Sheets-Sheet 3 A TTORNE YS Patented Dec. v1, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE JOHN F. PETERS, 0F NEW YORK, ASSIGNOB '10 AmICAN CAN COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY' COLLAR AND CAN LING- Application led October 4, 1923, Serial No. 666,488. Renewed February 19, 1931..

The machine provided by the present invention has for its purpose the assembly of separate collar members within can bodies t0 produce a construction in which a side tearing strip may be employed to open the container and the portion of the can removed by tearing away said strip may be employed as a temporary closure.

' provision of an efficient and rapidl operating machine for the purpose re erred to above, which is wholly automatic in action and which performs the assemblingy operation without the necessity of manual handling by attendants of the parts to be assembled.

Another obj ect of the invention is the provision of means whereby the machine may be adapted for operating upon cans of dilferent height.

It is also an object of my invention to provide a can body and collar assembling machine which involves a minimum number of operating parts and which will be unlikely to require frequent stoppage for attention or repa1r.

Another object is the provision of a machine of this character which iscontinuous in Y operation and in which the can bodies-are rounded up, or trued, and the collars inserted therein while the feeding devices continue to move said parts throu h the machine,- with consequent hlgh speed o? operation-if Numerous other objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent as it is better understood from the following description, which, taken in eonnectionwith the ac- 'companying drawings, discloses a preferred embodiment thereof. I

' Referring to the drawings,

Figure 1 1s a side elevation of the machine, certain parts being shown in section for the sake of better illustration;

`ing plate 42 and Fig. 2 is a plan view, partially broken away to disclose certain features ofconstruction;

Fig. 3 is a detail view of the adjusting yoke whereby the machine is adapted to operate upon cans of diil'erent height, said view being taken substantially on the section line 3-3 in Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a section taken substantially on the line 4-4 in Fig. 1; and

Fig. 5 is a section taken substantially on the line 5--5 of Fig. 1.

The machine is supported upon a frame, comprising a bed 21, legs 22 and 23 and upward extensions 24 and 25, a top plate 26' being secured at its opposite ends to upper extremities of said extensions. Said plate is widened at the center and is provided with an opening 27 through which the can bodies and collar members, indicated, respectively, by the reference characters 28 and 29, are adapted to be fed. A body chute is formed by means of retaining plates 31 and 32 and inwardly extending guides 33 and 34,- said chute extending from a suitable point of delivery through the plate 26 and being adapted to direct the can bodies into the pockets of spaced turret members 35 and 36. The retaining plate 31 is held in place by means of an adjusting block 37, which is held to the top plate 26 by means of screws 38 and is secured to said retaining plate 31 by means of screws 39. The guides 33 and 34 are secured to the retaining plates 31 and 32 by means of cap screws. 41.

A delivery chute for the collar members is provided adjacent the can body chute and is formed by the retaining plate 32, a retainguide 43. An adjusting block 44. corresponding to the block 37, is employed to hold the retaining member 42 in desired position.

,A turret 45 is provided adjacent the turret member 36 and is adapted to receive and rotate the collar bands 29 in axial alignment with the can bodies 28. Said turret members Y ends of the machine. The can bodies 28 and collar bands 29 having delivered into their respective feeding chutes, fall by gravity into the turrets just described, being received at a station A at which they are arranged in axial alignment. The shaft 46 is continuously rotated by means of a large gear 49, mounted on one end thereof and meshing with a pinion 51 on a short shaft 52, which latter has a bearing 53 depending from the under side of the frame bed 21 and a bearing 54 integral with the end of said bed, said shaft being driven from any suitable source of power by a belt taking over a pulley 55 carried on the outer end thereof. Rotation of the turrets, in counter-clockwise direction, brings the can bodies and collar members to a station indicated in Figs. 4 and 5 by the reference character B and at this point, the can body is rounded up, or trued, by means of a turret 56 having pockets 57 cooperating with pockets 58 of the turret member 36 to bring the upper part of the can body to true circular form prior to the insertion of the collar member 29 therein. The collar is also accurately shaped by the turret 56 cooperating with the collar turret 45, it being noted that said first-mentioned turret is of such -width as to engage both the can body and collar and is of slightly different diameter at 4 spect to the shaft 46 and carries, on its outer end, a gear 65 which meshes with a4 gear 66 on said shaft 46, the turret 56 being thus rotated in timed relationship with the turret members 35 and 36.

A can body and collar member having arrived at the station B, they are assembled by mechanism to be now described. Chucks 67, corresponding in number to the pockets of the turret members 35 and 36 and the turret 45, are carried on sliding shafts 68 having bearings in a carrier member 69 keyed to the main shaft 46. Each chuck`67 is formed with a tapered outer face 71 and an annular shoulder 72, being thus adapted to enter within a collar band 29 and to move the same inwardly to a predetermined position within a can body 28. The chuck is reciprocated in desired timed relationship to the rotation of the turrets by means of' a cam 73, bolted at 74 to the upright 25 and `being provided with a cam groove 75 operating upon a cam following roller 7 6, which is mounted upon a stud 77, secured in a yoke 7 8 formed at the rear end of the shaft 68. By this construction, it will be obvious that the chucks 67 are reciprocated periodically as they are rotated in axial alignment with the can body and collar turrets upon the shaft 46. In this manner, the collars are inserted, this action'takin place 'ust after the body has been rounde up at t e station B and during the time that it is moving between said station B and a station C, .indicated in Figs. 4 and 5. It will be noted that the retaining plate 32 extends downwardly between the can body and collar at the station A, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 5, but is cut away beyond the station A, so that when the parts arrive at the station B, the collar may be inserted.

A feature of my invention is the outward flangin of the end of the can body at which the colar is to be inserted, as indicated in Fig. 1. This Hanging is utilized to facilitate the ready and accurate insertion of the collar, and thereafter does or may constitute a double seaming flange when the can is closed in the usual manner of closing sanitary cans. The flanging of the can body may be produced before the cans are fed into the collar-inserting machine, or may be produced at any convenient time.

Adjacent the turret member 35, I provide a large disk 79, which is formed with a hub 81 slidably mounted upon the shaft 46 by means of a feathered connection clearly illustrated in Fig. l. Said disk is of sufficient diameter to vengage the bottoms of all of the cans in the turret members 35 and 36 and holds said cans against endwise movement as the collar bands are being inserted. At the end of the hub 81, there is provided a recessed collar 82, shown in detail in Fig. 3. A yoke 83, secured to an adjusting bar 84, fits into the recessed collar 82, said adjusting bar 84 being formed with a slot 85 through which extend studs oy which the bai is clamped to an extension of the turret 24. By means of this slotted connection, the disk 79 may be moved along the shaft 46 to vary the distance between it and the chucks 67 to accommodate cans of different height.

The forward stroke of the chuck 67 is completed and the chuck is withdrawn before the can body reaches the station C, it being understood that the length of the stroke is governed by the formation of the cam groove 75 and is calculated to arrange the collar at such position within the can body that itwill be opposite a tearing strip set ofi by score lines in the latter, which preferably are located a short distance below the top. The chuck having been withdrawn, the assembled cans are discharged from the machine through an inclined run-way 88 mounted upon a bracket 89 supported from the bed 21. A horizontal bar 91 is secured to a yoke 92 extending upwardly from said bed 21 and is turned upwardly at its inner end, as indicated at 93. Said bar is adapted to contact with the cans to remove them from the turret pockets at the discharging station C.

It is thought that the invention and many ,of its attendant advantages will be underiso will be apparent thatvarious changes may be made in the form, construction and arrangement of the parts without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention,

or sacrificing all of its material advantages,

ofthe can body and adapted to propel the Y collar andhaving a portion of smaller diameter to enter within the collar, said smaller portion entering Within and truing said col-j lar member for, automatically insertin said member within an open end of said can ody.

2. In a machine for making cans of the character described, the combinationy of means having pockets for arranging a can body and collar member in axial alignment,

,chutes for feeding can bodies and collar members intosaid pockets,.sai`d chutes having a plate separating the collar members from the bodies when they are depositedrin the pockets, and'r'eciprocating means entering Within and truing said collar member for automatically internally truing and in?V serting said member within an open end of said can body. I

`3. In a. machine for making cans of the character described, the combination of means for rotating can bodies and separate colla-r members in axial alignment, and rcciprocating tapered and shouldered chucks rotatable in unison with said last-mentioned 'means for assembling said member with the can bodie's. Y I

4. In a machine for making cans .of the character described, the combination of means for rotating a can body and collar member in axial alignment, means for rounding u the can body lduring the rotation thereo and a tapered and shoulderedchuck for inserting said colla-r member Within the rounded body.

5. In a machine ...for making cans of the character` described, the combination of a rotating turret provided With'pockets adapted to receive a canbody, another turret cooperating with said pockets for rounding up the body during rotation of theturret, means for arranging av separate collar member in axial alignment with said body, anda tapered and shouldered chuckfor truing the collar member, and automatically inserting said member within an open end of said body.

6. yIn a machine for making cans of the character described, the combination of. a rotating turret provided with pockets adapted to receive a can body, means cooperating with said pockets for rounding up the bodyduring rotation of the turret, a secondturret adapted to receive a separate collar member and to rotate the same in axial alignment with said body, and means for automatically entering'within and truing the collar member and inserting said member 'Within an open end of said body.

7 In a machine formaking cans of the character described, the combination of means for arranging a can body andseparate collar member in axial alignment, means providing a backing for the can, and a tapered and shouldered chuck for automatically inserting said member Within an open end of the can body;

8. In a machine for making cans of the character described, the combination of means for arranging a can body and sepa'- rate collar member in axial alignment, means providing a backingfor the can, and means for automatically entering Within and truing and inserting said collar member Within an open end of the can body, said backing means being adjustable to accommodate cans of different height.

9. In a machine for making cans of the character described, the combination of a rotating shaft, means on said shaft for carrying acan body and separate collar member arranged in axial alignment, means also car- `ried on said shaft for inserting said member Within an open end of said body, and a Cam mounted concentrically Withv said shaft for operating said last-mentioned means.

10.l In a machine for making cans of the character described, the combination of assembling mechanism, .and means for arranging can bodies and separate collar members Within the sphere of action of said mechaf nism, said mechanism including means projectable into an open end of the can body and having devices to true and position a collar member at a predetermined distance Within said body.

11. In a machine for inserting collars into can bodies, the combination of'a turret having pockets for receiving can bodies and conveyin them from a receiving station to an assem ling station, a turret having pockets for receiving and conveying collars to said assembling station and into alignment with the-canobodiea-rotary means having pocketsv cooperating with those of the can body conveying turret to confine and true-up the can bodies at the assembling station, and means truing-up the collars and causing them to be assembled within the can bodies.

12. In a machine for inserting collars into can bodies, the combination of 'a turret having pockets for receiving can bodies and conveyin them 'from a receiving station to an assem ling station, a turret having lpockets for receiving and conveying collars to saidassembling stationY and into alignment with the. can bodies, rotaryV means having pockets 1- ,cooperating with those ofthe can body conveying turret to confine and true-up the can bodies at the assembling station and means entering within the collars and the can bodies and truing up the collars internally and causing them to be assembledv within the can bodies.

13. In a machine for making cans of the character described, the combination of means for holding the can body and collar in line with each other, a chuck having a part to enter the collar and a shoulder to engage the outer edge of the collar and a part beyond said shoulder to lit Within the can body, and means for actuating ,said chuck to insert the collarrto a suitable distance within the can body. y

14. In a machine for making cans of the character described, the combination of means for arranging a can body and a separate collar member in axial alignment, a backing for said can body, a part adapted to engage the peripheral edge of the collar to force it into the can body, and means entering within the collar for bringing the collar to the shape of the open end of the can body whereby to permit the part engaging the collar edge to move the collar into the body.

'15. In a machine for making cans of the character described, Ythe combination of means arranging two thin sheet metal cylinders in axial alignment, a backer for one said cylinder, andra reciprocating part having a shoulder for engaging the edge or cylindrical end of the other cylinder and entering within the latter to force the two cylinders to telescope with the .inner cylinder located wholly within the outer.

1,6. `In amachine for making cans of the character described, the combination of means having an annular collar propelling shoulder for arranging a flanged can body and collar member in axial alignment and'means for automatically inserting said member into the flanged end of the can to a point substantially below the top of the can.

17. In a machine for making cans 'of the character described, thecombination of means having an annular collar propelling shoulder for arranging a ianged can body and a co1- lar member in axial alignment, means for ltruing the can body, means for inserting a collar member into the flanged end of the can to a point substantially below the top of the can.

18. In a machine for making cans of the character described, the combination of means for arranging a flanged can body and a collar member in axial alignment, means for engaging the edge of-the collar and inserting it within a .can body toa point substantially below the top edge of the can, said collar ,inserting means having a shape and dimension whereby itmay enter within said can body and within said collar.

v 19. In a machine for making cans of the character described, the combination of means for rotating a can Abody and collar member in axial alignment, means having an annular collar propelling shoulder for automatically inserting said member into the flanged end `of the can to a point substantiallybelow the top of the can.

20. A machine for making cans of the character described, comprising a turret having annularly spaced holders for tubular bodies and collars alined therewith, means for feeding bodies and collars to the successive holders, the turret also including socket members, collar plungers having parts entering within the collars and collar-propelling shoulders, and means acting in regular succession during continuous rotation of the turret to advance the socket members, move them to engage the bodies, advance the plungers to insert the collars in the respective bodies, and retract the plungers.`

21. A machine for making cans of the character described, comprising a turret having annularly spaced holders for tubular bodies and collars alined therewith, means for feeding bodies and collars to the successive holders, the turret also including socket members, collar plungers having parts entering within the collars and collar-propelling shoulders, and means acting in regular succession during continuous rotation of the turret to advance the socket members, move them to engage the bodies, advance the plungers to insert the collars in the respective bodies, and retract the plungers, and mechanism arranged to receive the collared bodies and including means for clinching the collars therein.

' 22. A machine for making cans of the character described, comprising a turret having annularly spaced holders for tubular bodies and collars alined therewith, means for feeding bodies and collars to the successive holders, the turret also including socket members, collar plungers having parts entering within the collars and collar-propelling shoulders, means acting in regular succession during continuous rotation of the turret to advance the socket members, move them to engage the bodies, advance the plungers to insert the collars in the respective bodies, and retract the plungers, and means for positively discharging the bodies.

JOHN lF. PETERS. 

